I have a new Avatar Image Nixon and the 5 year grape boycott

[Omaha Steve]

My old avatar was a Labor for Obama. That hasn't changed. It was just time for a change. 3/4ths of my ancestors were immigrants. The downtrodden.



PBS: Cesar Chavez and the UFW

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/cesarchavez1.html

Exploring the United Farm Workers' History

http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/grape-boycott/History.html

Remembering the grape boycott

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/unitedstates/california/3340.html

See full article.

The strike lasted five years, involved more than 5,000 farm workers and successfully led to the first collective bargaining agreements for farm workers in U.S. history.

Unlike almost any other job in the United States, workers toiling the fields had no real rights prior to this event. Laws that protected other workers did not apply to farm workers.

As a result, many farm workers were subject to hazardous working conditions, harmful toxics, child labor and poverty wages. Required breaks and working hour restrictions also did not apply.

[XemaSab]

1. As Arlo Guthrie says on the album "Together in Concert: Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger"

before the song "Deportees," "It must be strange to grow up in this country and not know what a grape looks like." :D

[Sequoia]

2. I didn't eat grapes during that time.

[ReliantJ]

3. Sweet. I just ordered a

poster of the famous "Chavez/RFK" meet.

[Ken Burch]

6. Pm me with the info on where to get that.

I've always wanted to find a copy of that image.

[H2O Man]

4. They were probably sour. n/t

[malaise]

5. Nice post

Thanks

Unions forever!